We’re kindred states in a few ways. After all, both used to be part of Mexico until we stole them away, fair and square. (No offense to any of our Mexican junkie brethren and sistren out there. We’re just your ugly, long-lost cousins now. You don’t really want us living with you long-term, but we’re fun to have over every now and then.)

– “I don’t have time for a grudge match with every poser in a parka.” -Dr. Horrible

what does a Southerner call someone from the US West (i.e. Colorado). We’re not Yankees, but we’re not from the South either. BTW, General Stonewall Jackson is on my list of most admired people ever in history.

– “I don’t have time for a grudge match with every poser in a parka.” -Dr. Horrible

THey will realize the need for columbos and then make the host even more paranoid so they don’t have to worry about being taken out unless they pull a Perry Dawsey and get the chicken scissors and… <shivers>. Then the host can go to Adrian or Shyboygin or whatever it got changed to. THe hatchlings come out and they scurry away happily into another demention to get the Ki.

G-Man

Nine million terrorists in the world I gotta kill one with smaller feet than my sister. – John McClane

Metamorphasis will occur, and a larger more diverse being will emerge, or maybe like the Hive insects, these Triangles will take a turn and morph into soldiers, workers, and even intellects, ( remember the brain bugs in Starship Troopers?) but they might have to capture and keep Humans as host breeding stock, or maybe they can just manipulate a few genes and in the final adult stage reproduce, with out human intervention. by then I think they would have the Columbo thing figured out. but they would fear all trenchcoats.*I am the Rear Admiral but Sigler gives the Orders*

I’d actually think that they will, but mostly for defensive measures. Once hatched, they are intrinsically geared toward timeline and goal. Get the gate up and running… Set down a perimeter for defensive purposes… Especially after the first failed attempt (assuming that was the first one, it’s a big world)… I would more likely envision different abilities being engineered into further iterations of the species… The ability to attack from a distance with ranged weapons perhaps… Take out those pesky gunships before they blow up the gate… Or shield generation for protective purposes… In the larval stage they’re pretty much peaked out as far as growth and abilities, but once hatched, who knows… Maybe a chameleon mechanism. I’m actually almost having trouble understanding how they all got out to the "grove". Did they hitchhike?